Griffith Cemetery
Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosIt is quite an old cemetery, but very overgrown. I was told there were a lot of people buried there, but there are very few markers. Quite a few field stones used as markers, but many of them have sank into the ground. Very overgrown with new trees growing up, and old ones littering the ground. Some of the stones that are still there are mostly made of sandstone and they have weathered to where you can't identify much. I was told that when the pipeline was put in, the men working on it cleaned up the Cemetery quite a bit. I dug out a small stone that had overturned and been covered by fallen trees. It had fallen face first which preserved the front of it. No name written, just a small child's hand drawn on it.
I was also told by an older woman that has lived all of her life on Tuppers Creek and used to go up to the Griffith Cemetery years before, that there was a Reed headstone (she couldn't remember the first name, only the last) that had a tree growing up in it and was splitting the stone in two. When I was there, the stone was gone. Possibly in the cleanup with the pipeline crew.
Nothing is plotted out in this cemetery, nature has taken over and it just looks like a forest with a few stones, but on the satelite image it looks to be circular in shape.
It is quite an old cemetery, but very overgrown. I was told there were a lot of people buried there, but there are very few markers. Quite a few field stones used as markers, but many of them have sank into the ground. Very overgrown with new trees growing up, and old ones littering the ground. Some of the stones that are still there are mostly made of sandstone and they have weathered to where you can't identify much. I was told that when the pipeline was put in, the men working on it cleaned up the Cemetery quite a bit. I dug out a small stone that had overturned and been covered by fallen trees. It had fallen face first which preserved the front of it. No name written, just a small child's hand drawn on it.
I was also told by an older woman that has lived all of her life on Tuppers Creek and used to go up to the Griffith Cemetery years before, that there was a Reed headstone (she couldn't remember the first name, only the last) that had a tree growing up in it and was splitting the stone in two. When I was there, the stone was gone. Possibly in the cleanup with the pipeline crew.
Nothing is plotted out in this cemetery, nature has taken over and it just looks like a forest with a few stones, but on the satelite image it looks to be circular in shape.
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- Added: 23 Oct 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2280418
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